Informator 1 (also flown as RS-14/AMSAT-OSCAR 21), a joint Soviet-German prototype satellite for the planned 45-satellite Koskon store-and-forward communications network, launched from Plesetsk; the project was cancelled after this single test flight.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.6 T
- Flight
- 376th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 29 January 1991, 11:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1991-006
- Launches in 1991
- 6th of 91
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